Swimmers Make Thanksgiving A Feast of The East

Turkeys Thursday, Lions Saturday.

After celebrating Thanksgiving with the traditional dish last Thursday, the Harvard women's swimming team helped itself to a generous serving of Lion Saturday--Columbia's Lions that is.

Winning all but four of the 16 events, the Crimson recorded an impressive 159 1/2-98 1/2 win over Columbia at the Percy Uris Swimming Center.

Four of swimmers--sophmores Shelia Findley, Mia Costello, Mary Quinn and junior Linda Suhs--left their mark in Manhattan. The mark was a pool record of 1:49.08 in the first race of day, the 200-yd. medley relay.

Junior Janice Sweetser turned in a first-place performance in the 200 freestyle, while Findley, the lead-off swimmer for the record-breaking relay team, came back to win the 100 backstroke.

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Costello, another co-holder of the relay record, also captured both breaststroke events. Sophomore Kaari Reierson collected first-place honors in the 200 back. Freshmen Nicole Engh, Kyo Bannai and Anne Hardy all had hold medal performances in the 200 individual medley, 50 free and 500 free respectively.

"This meet was a really good one for us," Co-Captain Kelly Taber said.

"The team looked very strong, Harvard Coach Maura Costin Scalise said. "Several people who hadn't had the opportunity to swim do so and rested some people for the [Alabama Invitational] tournament this weekend. It showed our depth and how consistently people have been swimming."

The Crimson will leave Thursday to compete in the Alabama Invitational, a national tourney which attracts swimming powerhouses from around the nation and which the squad expects to be one of its toughest meets of the season.

The swimmers will shave their legs and sport special racing suits--an activity usually saved for season's-end--for its first meet of the tourney, Friday against Kansas.